Financial Planning Analyst

Glanbia Performance Nutrition

Position Title: Financial Planning Analyst

Reporting to: FP&A Manager

Location: Downers Grove, IL

Job Purpose:  

This role will be a key part of GPN’s Global FP&A team, particularly around the balance sheet and cashflow reporting and forecasting for GPN Globally. The FP&A Analyst will be a key player in the GPN Global FP&A team, with various responsibilities across the financial planning and management reporting in the area of the balance sheet and cashflow process for GPN Global. This person will engage with regional finance teams in relation to various elements within these processes. They will assist the FP&A Manager & Director of FP&A and provide insightful financial analysis to support decision making for the CFO / CEO and wider Glanbia Group to assist in decision making for GPN. The role will also support various finance digital transformation initiatives that are on-going within the GPN business.

Principal Accountabilities (not definitive)

• Reporting to the FP&A Manager, this person will work in a dynamic, high performing team striving to deliver best in class FP&A reporting around the balance sheet and cashflow process for GPN Global.
• Assist in the month-end commercial reporting process by working closely with relevant controlling teams and regional finance to ensure results are complete and accurate around the balance sheet and cashflow process for GPN Global.
• Perform the Global planning process (budgets, forecasts, outlooks) in SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) and work with the regions to consolidate financial plans and then explain the overall financial performance around the balance sheet and cashflow process for GPN Global.
• Perform the GPN Global weekly cashflow planning process and work with the regions to consolidate and explain the overall financial performance around the cashflow process for GPN Global.
• Gain a thorough understanding of variances and assist in the preparation of both month-end and forecasting flash reporting and review decks.
• Drive initiatives to improve our balance sheet and cashflow analytics and storytelling, ensuring clear communication of financial data to support informed decision making by:
• Collaborating with regional finance and data analytic teams;
• Identifying key trends;
• Presenting actionable insights.
• Assist the Global FP&A team on wider reporting and analysis requests across month-end and budget/forecast periods.
• Assist in any ad-hoc projects required to support business growth and consistently strive for process improvements and support delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Continue to embed the use of SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) in our day-to-day reporting, developing new capabilities and dashboards to facilitates data-driven decision-making.
• Be a true subject matter expert on Global balance sheet and cashflow reporting and the systems used including SAP, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), and Business Objects.

Key Challenges & Success Measures

• Supporting the Global Finance team, being part of a dynamic, fast-paced and growing business on a wide variety of routine and adhoc financial reporting and analysis requests.
• Can effectively navigate complexity and ambiguity.
• Learns quickly and can adapt insights based on new learning’s.
• Communicates and influences effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal skills by actively engaging and collaborating with stakeholders and cultivating strong relationships.
• Drives the continuous development of financial reporting, modelling and analysis of the commercial business to provide clear, accurate, and insightful data that informs decision making.
• Constantly looking to find a better way to derive and present data to drive efficiency and effectiveness of information.
• Balancing requests from multiple team members and gaining a strong understanding of all areas of the Global balance sheet and cashflow.
• Working with finance partners across the globe in various time zones and gaining an understanding of their business models.

Skills, Know How and experience

• Qualified  accountant
• Minimum 2+ years’ PQE experience. CPG experience preferred
• Experience with SAP and Business Objects would be advantageous
• Strong influencing and communication skills.
• Self-starter, who has the ability to work within a team.
• Enthusiastic to gain experience in a fast moving and dynamic business, ideally having worked previously in a financial reporting or commercial finance position.
• Experience in managing rapidly changing workload and tight deadlines, in the context of high stakeholder expectations and tight time frames.
• Very strong attention to detail, analytical, good judgement making and logical decision maker.

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience.  Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in IL. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. The annual salary for IL based employees for this role is $65,000 - $85,000 with an annual bonus.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more